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Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know we "landed" at the Buffalo/Toronto border via Fort Erie. Everything was very smooth and took about 10-15 minutes. They signed both copies of the COPR and put one of them in my wife's Australian passport. The PR card will arrive in the mail in 6-8...

Hi bluemolly - yes, it's a bit strange, but I guess it doesn't matter as long as we get our COPR safely by regular mail! So another update on my end is that we took our COPR to the Service Ontario office along with my wife's Australian passport, a phone bill / bank statement showing her new...

Thanks for the tip c12345! We may use this method, but we've also got reasons to go to the US, like cross-border shopping and celebrating our COPR with family/friends in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, etc!

Got our COPR in the mail everyone! Sydney VO did not disappoint. The spreadsheet is updated. Looking at my timeline (284 days from beginning to end), I think we did pretty well, even if this was a little longer than most of the others in this forum. Oddly, they didn't use our Fedex prepaid...

Quick update everyone - e-cas is now saying "Decision Made" (it's been 2 weeks since we received PPR and about 10 days since we mailed our passport copies). I assume that COPR is just around the corner?

Hi mrlahori - I had the same thing (Medical Passed, Rest Not Started). The criminality check also said "No adverse info" but this was also written on the police certificate, so no surprise there. We got our GCMS/CAIPS notes on April 10, then got our PPR on May 14. But we applied for our...

Here you go: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5563E.pdf They replied to my request within less than 2 weeks. I submitted it through the Access to Information Act. But the information wasn't much better than what ecas showed in my case.

Thanks everyone! Great to have your support and to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. So after reading over all of your tips and previous messages in this forum, I noticed some people (e.g. Matthew_Fitzy) got their docs by sending everything as a PDF, no mailing whatsoever, while...

Finally got some activity guys - we got an email saying we are in the final stages along with a request for our passport copies just today! As expected, ECAS still says "Application Received" --> so much for me checking it every day for the past 7 months with no change! A few questions: 1)...

So great that you guys are starting to get your PPR/COPR! Congrats everyone! No update on our end except that we got our CAIPS notes. The only thing those revealed was that my wife passed her Medical Results and that her there was nothing objectionable in her criminal record check, which is...

Very useful info, thanks marcopolocan! So I have an interesting story to share. My (Australian) wife and I decided to do some cross-border shopping at the Fashion Outlets in Niagara Falls, NY over the past Easter long weekend. We went with our passports and her US visa waiver in hand. On...

Great to hear there's progress BCRain (even if it's annoying progress). Looks like I'm the last one standing for the August 2012 applications :(

Stage 1 AOR is the approval of the Sponsor, Stage 2 AOR is the approval of the person immigrating (spouse, family member). We only received an email about Stage 1 approval, still waiting on Stage 2 confirmation. And no, haven't gone in process yet ...:(. Seems BCRain and I are the last ones...

Hi Vipulpatel, I don't think you start any steps from the beginning by changing your address and country on ecas -- but they might find it odd that you applied to the Sydney office when your home country is no longer Australia. When does your Australian visa expire, and is it a work visa or a...

Congrats jen123, that's wonderful! I noticed you didn't have a "Stage 2 AOR" date in the spreadsheet but that you've gone "in process" nonetheless. Did they never send you an email about it? We're in the same boat so now I'm wondering if they don't always bother to send out the Stage 2 email?

Thanks freezing_aussie -- I guess I'll wait for a bit longer before getting my shorts...err...snowboots...in a knot :P.

This is great news! Keeping my fingers crossed freezing_aussie! Question: Should I be concerned that I still haven't received Stage 2 Approval? I see people who submitted long after me that have gotten it. Also, does the notification of stage 2 approval usually come by email (like Stage 1...

Congrats c12345! freezing_aussie and I applied around the same time as you, so I hope this means great news for us is just around the corner.

Hi Yannie -- glad you got your PR, and glad to see they are actually updating ecas to reflect this. Also, hope you don't mind, I sort of moved your entry in the spreadsheet up along with the other March 2012 PR application filings so that it was properly sorted by date!

Congrats figgy! Looking at your timeline (July 2012 to Feb 2013 = 7 months) gives me hope that August / September applicants like myself will be getting our PR's soon (hopefully!).